What a great site this is! I thank my wonderful accountant and CPA for turning me on to BP. I am a beyond full time ;0) Realtor in the San Francisco Bay Area and a very proud native to the Peninsula...born and rais...

Hi BP,My name is Raja Minhas and I work as a business analyst in Milpitas/Palo Alto, California. I bought a property in 2005 in northern California (Red Bluff), but ended up giving it back to the bank in a deed in lie...

Hi everyone - I'm new to BiggerPockets and am researching our first multifamily unit in San Francisco Sunset District (or Oakland if the numbers won't work in SF). My husband and I have been renting and saving and are...

Hey guys! I'm working on my first deal and am in an unorthodox situation, at least compared to the traditional strategies I've studied. Here are the numbers:

Purchase Price: $5k

Rehab/Closing/Misc: $30k...

Are there any strategies to minimize taxes on the profits from flipping? Also, is it advisable to always purchase in the name of the LLC or is ok to do it on my own name if it is a quick flip? Thanks for your feedback.

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I am newbie to here, I want to know which way should I go either in investing or going into business? My current status is as an employee in one company but I am looking to jump out of the box , please adv...

Hi everyone,Can anyone recommend a proven and reputable real estate agent in the Bay Area who works regularly with investors? Someone who ideally owns some investment properties themselves and understands cash flow an...

When trying to pull comps for a particular property everyone says you should use mls.com. When I do this though it always will forward me off to some partner site, such as ziprealty.com. Now my question is do those si...

As I was poking around at the relationships between jobs and potential predictors of job losses, I started looking at a mathematical representation of something less quantitative, that we are all familiar with. This s...

About two years ago my accountant mentioned "Captive Insurance" as a way to avoid paying a lot of taxes. When it seems too good to be true is usually is...blah,blah,blah, so I switched accounting firms (I had other re...